No. PingMe will never sell any personally identifiable information to advertisers. You can read more about our privacy policy at www.pingme.net/company/legal.

Yes. Messages can only be manually deleted.

PingMe currently supports photos and location and will introduce video and voice message in an update coming soon.

There is no limit to the number of friends you can have in a group chat.

No. The PingMe application is completely free. It’s even free for International usage.

In the current version, we do not have custom sounds for the notification. In later releases, we will introduce new sounds that you can customize. For the time being, please adjust your phone’s sound settings to manage the volume.

Please send an email to verification@pingme.net and our support staff will email you a unique verification code to activate the application.

You can find and invite friends to PingMe in a couple of different ways. You can find friends that are already using PingMe by entering their phone number directly, scanning your address book, or scanning your Facebook friends. You can also send an invitation to your friends via email, SMS, Facebook, or Twitter. To do this, go to:

• Contacts > + (button on the top right).

Go to Profile > select Edit (the button on the top right corner of the app) > select Change Your Profile Photo

Yes. PingMe is completely free. It’s even free to send messages and share multimedia with your international friends.

We ask for your phone number because that’s how PingMe routes messages to your device. We value your privacy and have not, and never will, sell your personal information to anyone. You can read more about our privacy policy at www.pingme.net.

• First, update your PingMe status to notify all of your friends that you have a new phone number.
• Second, delete PingMe, re-install the app and register with your new phone number.

You can use the Status functionality of PingMe to inform your friends about your availability or anything else that’s on your mind. For instance:
• You’re getting on a plane and cannot be reached for a few hours
• You’re at a movie and will not respond for a few hours
• You’re in a meeting and can only respond via email or PingMe
• Your phone is dying and can only be reached via email/direct phone

You do not need to sign in and out of PingMe. In order to receive and be notified of new messages from your friends, you need to be signed in at all times.

Not at all. PingMe leverages push notifications to let you know when friends have sent you a message. When the application is closed, it does not use any battery.

S – Your message has successfully sent
D – Your message was delivered to the recipient’s device
R – Your message was read by the recipient

Make sure you have an Internet connection by visiting a website from your phone.

PingMe is completely free. It’s even free for international messaging and sharing.

SMS is an old messaging service that’s slow and expensive. PingMe has more social features and functionalities, is completely free, and blazingly fast.

PingMe is the new cross-platform group-messaging application for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry mobile devices. You can now socialize, share multi-media messages, and stay connected with your closest friends in blazingly fast speed. The best part is, it’s completely free!

You can delete PingMe contacts that are not in your phone’s address book by selecting the contact and clicking the menu button on the top right corner.

Message: Go to Pings > select the conversation where you’d like to delete the message > select Edit (in the top right corner) > select the message > select delete (at the bottom of the app).

Conversations: Go to Pings > select Edit (in the top right corner) > select the conversation > select delete (at the bottom of the app).

Go to Profile > select Edit (the button on the top right corner of the app) > select Change Your Profile Photo.

Please enter a phone number that can receive text messages in order for the verification code to be texted to you.

Please enter a phone number that can receive text messages in order for the verification code to be texted to you.

Your device is not properly activated with Apple and therefore cannot receive push notifications. To resolve this issue, visit http://www.pushfix.info. There is a detailed page here http://pushfix.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=35 or http://www.ihackintosh.com/2010/03/push-doctor-free-push-fix-for-hacktivated-iphones/. After you apply the fix, please delete and reinstall the app.

Make sure that push notifications are enabled on your devices settings and that you have a data connection.

Go to conversations > + (button on the top right) > type in new friends to join the group conversation

We support all iDevices as long as they are running OS 3.1 and up. PingMe works on iPad in 2x mode.

In order to activate PingMe on devices that do not support SMS, you must enter a phone number that is capable of receiving a text message with your unique verification code. Once you receive this verification code, you must enter it into the device you’d like to activate.

You can delete PingMe contacts that are not in your phone’s address book by selecting the contact and holding your finger down on that contact until the delete option pops up.

PingMe supports Android version 2.1+. To find your Android version, you can follow these steps:

1. From the Home screen, find and tap Settings > About phone.
2. Under Firmware version, you will find your current Android version.

Go to Settings > Select Chat Settings > Select Your Profile Picture > Choose to take a new photo or select one from your phone’s photo library.

Message: Go to Pings > select the conversation where you’d liek to delete the message > hold your finger down on the message you’d like to delete > select delete.

Conversation: Go to Pings > hold your finger down on the conversation you’d like to delete > select delete.

You can find and invite friends to PingMe in a couple of different ways. You can find friends that are already using PingMe by entering their phone number directly, scanning your address book, or scanning your Facebook friends. You can also send an invitation to your friends via email, SMS, Facebook, or Twitter. To do this, go to:

• Contacts > + (button on the top right)

Go to Pings > + (button on the top right) > type in new friends to join the group conversation.

In order to change your notification sound for PingMe, you must change the notification settings on your phone. You can do this by going to Options > Sounds and Ring Tones > Sounds for Selected Profile > Other Application – Notifiers > PingMe.